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What Causes Severe Dizziness While On Simvastatin And Lisinopril?

I am a 68 year old male. I have atrial fibrillation and I am being treated for that by my local doctor (a cardiologist) in the Los Angeles area for approximately 10 years and have had no troubles using the prescribed medication: Pradaxa, Cardiziem, Lanoxin, and Lisinopril. I am also using Simvastatin to control my high blood pressure. I have been on this combination for around 10 years with no problems. In the last 4-5 days I have been experiencing dizziness when I go from sitting to standing or when arising from bed. In addition, in bed when I roll over to place myself on my left side, I experience the dizziness which lasts for about 10 seconds. I am active and regularly take a 30 minute walk around my neighborhood. I still can do all my activities, but I am concerned about the dizziness. I am scheduled to see my primary care physician in November, but I am thinking this may be serious enough to go in right away. I would like your opinion.
Fri, 23 Oct 2015
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I really appreciate your concern, the nature of dizziness that is being described here could be due to vestibular dysfunction and second it could be orthostatic hypotension but in my opinion first vertigo need to be managed and best drug for this is "Tab Bitahistine 8 mg" three times in day, hope this information helps, take care and have a nice day.
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What Causes Severe Dizziness While On Simvastatin And Lisinopril?

HI Well come to HCM I really appreciate your concern, the nature of dizziness that is being described here could be due to vestibular dysfunction and second it could be orthostatic hypotension but in my opinion first vertigo need to be managed and best drug for this is Tab Bitahistine 8 mg three times in day, hope this information helps, take care and have a nice day.